Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 9, Issue 2, 194(2016)

Manipulating optical vortices using integrated photonics

Ning ZHANG1, Kenan CICEK1, Jiangbo ZHU1, Shimao LI2, Huanlu LI3, Marc SOREL3, Xinlun CAI2、*, and Siyuan YU1
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  • 1Photonics Group, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UB, UK
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
  • 3School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
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    Optical vortices (OVs) refer to a class of cylindrical optical modes with azimuthally varying phase terms arising either from polarization rotation or from the angular projection of the wave vector that at the quantum level corresponds to photon spin or orbital angular momenta. OVs have attracted the attention of researchers in many areas of optics and photonics, as their potential applications range from optical communications, optical manipulation, imaging, sensing, to quantum information. In recent years, integrated photonics has becomes an effective method of manipulating OVs. In this paper, the theoretical framework and experimental progress of integrated photonics for the manipulation of OVs were reviewed.

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    Ning ZHANG, Kenan CICEK, Jiangbo ZHU, Shimao LI, Huanlu LI, Marc SOREL, Xinlun CAI, Siyuan YU. Manipulating optical vortices using integrated photonics[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2016, 9(2): 194

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    Paper Information

    Category: REVIEW ARTICLE

    Received: Feb. 6, 2016

    Accepted: Feb. 22, 2016

    Published Online: Oct. 21, 2016

    The Author Email: Xinlun CAI (caixlun5@mail.sysu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-016-0623-2

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